Ben Lerner Quotes

You are the first and last indigenous Nintendo.

Ben Lerner

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• I'm very kinesthetic, and when you're that way, you just feel it in your body. I know that other actors think with the logical part of their brain, but I wear my character inside my body, even when I'm away from the set.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • Character
  • Brain
  • Body

• Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Me
  • Stage

• There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • True
  • Goodness
  • Which

• I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Kind
  • Enjoy
  • Suits

• But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Country
  • Enough
  • Corruption

• Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run.

  

  Andrew Tobias
  • Insurance

• 'There is often greater martyrdom to live for the love of, whether man or an ideal, than to die' is a motto of the Mahatmas.

  

  Helena Blavatsky
  • Live
  • Die

• Do we want to be successful, or do we just want to make noise just to make it? Or just to put something on the record? I'll be honest with you, I'm tired of putting stuff on the record. I'm ready to see some real transformation and change.

  

  Bernice King
  • Real
  • Tired
  • Transformation

• Ever since we started, we've been trying to give people music that is pop music where you could just get into the melody and get into the performance of the band and be quite satisfied.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• You should never take military intervention off the table. When you do so, you give an out to a rogue nation or rogue actors.

  

  Kyrsten Sinema
  • Military

• I got rid of Twitter, and I got rid of Facebook.

  

  Pete Davidson

• The whip's office is almost more educational - educating members on the bill itself, listening to members ahead of time.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • Time
  • Listening

• Peter Jackson is a wonderful man. He's a great director. He's found his niche in life.

  

  Luke Evans
  • Life
  • Great

• A lot of the time, I don't actually relate to what I'm writing about in pop songs.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Time
  • Writing

• We cannot solve the STEM gender gap without solving it for millennials. They're our first digital natives, and they're willing to learn quickly.

  

  Caroline Ghosn

• I think my parents had in mind that I would settle down at quite a young age, but I decided that being a housewife in a big country house wasn't for me. I wanted to leave the country, head for London and see what the world had to offer.

  

  Alison Jackson
  • World
  • Country
  • Mind

• It wasn't cool that I didn't comb my hair and had books and wore glasses. It was never cool be a nerd and tomboy, and these days, it really is. And I'm like, 'You guys have no idea what I went through.' How many times my mother yelled at me to comb my hair.

  

  AJ Lee
  • Mother
  • Cool
  • Hair

• I just kind of went into the blue-collar workforce at a really young age and discovered music, in terms of being a musician, around the same time. The good news is, I was probably 17 when I knew that's what I was going to do with the rest of my life, no matter what that meant.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.

  

  Elinor Lipman
  • Writing
  • Job

• My first job ever was working a ski lift when I was 16. I also worked at a garden center, which I loved. I did that for two and a half years.

  

  Sara Canning
  • Jobs
  • Garden
  • Firsts

• Purge thy heart from malice and, innocent of envy, enter the divine court of holiness.

  

  Bahá'u'lláh
  • Heart
  • Innocent
  • Envy

• Tesla is changing the paradigm. We're going to turn the world on its ear and create high demand through design.

  

  Franz von Holzhausen
  • World
  • High
  • Design

• Without God at the beginning, there can be only confusion at the end.

  

  Edward J. Flanagan
  • God
  • Beginning
  • Confusion

• You are the first and last indigenous Nintendo.

  

  Ben Lerner